Pixeltable, a San Francisco, CA-based open-source AI data infrastructure company, raised $5.5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by The General Partnership, with participation from Exceptional Capital, South Park Commons, Liquid 2, Serena Data ventures, Michael Stoppelman (Angel Investor & Former SVP of Engineering at Yelp), Wes McKinney (Principal Architect, Posit), Bill Hsieh (Bridge Street Advisors), Steven Mih (CEO Across AI, former CEO of Aviatrix, Alluxio, and Ahana), and others.
The company intends to use the funds to:
- Expand core infrastructure capabilities
- Build collaboration features focused on multimodal data management
- Develop Pixeltable Cloud, a fully-managed service
Led by Pierre Brunelle, CEO, and Marcel Kornacker, CTO, Pixeltable empowers data infrastructure for AI application development. It unifies data storage, versioning, and indexing with orchestration and model versioning under a declarative table interface. By representing transformations, model inference, and custom logic as computed columns, it enables Data Scientists and ML Engineers to enjoy incremental updates and built-in data operation tracing to reduce development time and resource usage while enhancing reproducibility.
Pixeltable’s key innovations include:
- Unified multimodal interface: Handle video, images, audio, and text with structured and unstructured data living side by side through a consistent, intuitive table API
- Automatic incremental updates: Only process new data, eliminating redundant computation
- Combined lineage and versioning: Track transformations from data to model inferences in one place
- Development-to-production mirror: Same code works in both environments without rewrites
- Flexible integration & extensibility: Use built-in and custom Python functions (UDFs) while building tables through any standard frameworks and formats
FinSMEs
05/12/2024